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Red Hat 8.0 Installation Problem

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creedon:
It sounds like a LILO problem; where did you write LILO to, the root partition or the MBR?  I think it's just a configuration issue.

dishawjp:
Hi Creedon,

Grub is the default bootloader for RH 8 and I believe it's supposed to be installed in the /boot partition.  I'm wondering if there's some sort of a conflict between Lilo (the default Mandrake 8.2 bootloader) and grub, and that happened when he tried to install RH8.

I'm going to try helping him with this problem tonight and if you have any thoughts, le me know. I was palnning on looking at his partitioning with fdisk to make sure that his /boot partition is correctly located and that grub is loaded there and seems to be properly configured.

One question I have is what determines which bootloader is used if there is more than one installed.  In other words, how would I make sure that the boot process looks to grub and not to lilo? It sounds like there may be some sort of a conflict there that is interfering with the boot process.

Jim

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by DOSman:
Hi Creedon,

Grub is the default bootloader for RH 8 and I believe it's supposed to be installed in the /boot partition.  I'm wondering if there's some sort of a conflict between Lilo (the default Mandrake 8.2 bootloader) and grub, and that happened when he tried to install RH8.

I'm going to try helping him with this problem tonight and if you have any thoughts, le me know. I was palnning on looking at his partitioning with fdisk to make sure that his /boot partition is correctly located and that grub is loaded there and seems to be properly configured.

One question I have is what determines which bootloader is used if there is more than one installed.  In other words, how would I make sure that the boot process looks to grub and not to lilo? It sounds like there may be some sort of a conflict there that is interfering with the boot process.

Jim
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Yeah, I think i'ts a boot-loader problem; without looking at my documentation, I believe that GRUB resides in the MBR; it chain-loads Windows, and boots Linux natively.  The best way might be to experiment with a GRUB floppy; try some different config's and when you get it right, write it to the MBR.

Agent007:
Assuming u have a working grub.conf

# grub

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

u'll get the partition where your grub stages are installed in grub
hd naming convention for e.g.
 (h0,3)

then set this as root partition
grub> root (hd0,3)

then install grub on mbr
grub> setup (hd0)

quit and reboot
grub> quit

# reboot

it should work.

rgds,
007

beltorak0:
I had the smae problem a while ago.  I scoured the internet for fifteen hours looking for this proceedure; basically you need to re-"sys" drive c:, but save the original "msdos.sys" because of it's boot up stuff.

[*]boot with win98 startup disk (you do have one, right?  any dos will do unless the following commands aren't supported...)[*]path=c:\windows\command[*]fdisk /mbr[*]c:[*]attrib -h -s -r msdos.sys[*]copy msdos.sys msdos.xxx[*]a:[*]sys c:[*]c:[*]attrib -s -h -r msdos.sys[*]copy msdos.xxx msdos.sys[*]y ; If needed because of silly warnings...[*]attrib +h +s +r msdos.sys[*]reboot
[/list]

you will have to reinstall the boot loader after "fdisk /mbr" of course; but i think it is necessary since the partial install of RH 8 zotst the master boot record and the windows partition boot record as well.

hope that helps.
-t.

[ December 30, 2002: Message edited by: beltorak0 ]

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